lacking
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While many of the details were already known, the reports reaffirmed that individual screeners underperformed and that leadership and oversight were lacking when things were going wrong.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
They only partially captured usage on Apple devices, and consolidated data was lacking for Russia, Iran and China.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Otherwise, juries lacking scientific or regulatory training could be asked to pronounce whether billion-dollar research-and-development choices were “reasonable” years after the fact.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
In 2022, he won the most votes of any controller candidate in city history, despite lacking name recognition and running against a sitting city council member, Paul Koretz.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
“If we wait till then to find out that our closets are lacking something essential, it’ll be too late to do anything about it, and that would be dumb.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Vocabulary lists containing lacking
Absent
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